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Tell people to keep away from him and don't let them touch him at all. It's really bad manners to go up to a strange dog and pet it, and people are huge and scary when you are only a little dog. What else can he say but WOOF and GRRRR to get them to back off out of his space? If he goes up to someon...

Here's a little story :wink: One of my clients came to me as a last resort, every previous trainer/behaviourist/vet/nosybusybody having told her to have her dog castrated because of various behaviour issues common to the adolescent male. I assessed him and told her that if she committed to the train...

You have to look at this in terms of reward so far as the dog is concerned. Two huge rewards here - food and prey drive. Sorry, a few days of saying/teaching 'I don't want you to do this' will only teach the dog to do it when you aren't looking. Sounds as if he and the chooks have a wonderful life -...

You are right to be concerned because it won't be long before your dog goes into 'kill' mode and it's curtains for your chickens. He is bred to be very reactive to feathered things. You know the layout of your garden and hen run - I don't. Rather than suggest the impossible, I'd say figure out ways ...

If you neuter a dog before maturity, you lock it into permanent puppyhood, mental and physical. The mental aspect turns some dogs into thugs, because they behave like puppies around other dogs and expect to get away with it (as they have not developed adult behaviour and now won't) and they are unab...

Wherever you walk your dog, you need to be ahead of the game. Watch other dogs, watch yours, don't get talking to your friends or on the mobile phone or worrying about work or dreaming what you'd do with a big win......... Watch your dog, watch other dogs, ALL the time. You will soon get to see pote...

Really sorry to do this, but I must disagree with you there. Neutering is not a substitute for training. Un-neutered dogs can be trained as well and often better (depending on when the neutering was done) than neutered ones. The neutering is a completely separate issue. What this dog needs is TRAINI...

I hate eye drops too. From time to time mine get gunky eyes, and my vet says wipe them with a used tea bag - it has had boiling water on it so is sterile, and there is something healing in tea. IME dogs don't object to eyes being wiped - after all it's rather like them being licked, which dogs somet...

Have a full vet check first in case there is a physical cause.

If you feed commercial food, the manufacturers may have changed what is in it, and something might be disagreeing with her.

Is the poo normal?

Certainly haven't got mad and I'm sorry if I gave that impression - I tend to be short and to the point, hence the username

I actually am very impressed with the care you are taking to help your Wei, and I am certain she will shape up into a wonderful dog with all the help she's getting from you.

Leave your older dog the option of going into his crate by leaving its door open.

Please don't allow people to touch her head. Heads are very personal (would you like a stranger to touch yours?) and only trusted friends should touch a dog's head - and never ever pat it. At this stage I don't think people should be petting your dog at all, never mind giving her commands. If she go...

Has she had a thorough vet check to make sure the waterworks/bowels are in order, not infected and under her control? Then its back to puppy training. Two hours is too long. Start with taking out every 40 minutes. I know this is bad news but so is a life of clearing up mess. What conditions was she ...

My dogs very seldom need any correction word once they know the ropes and it will be the same for yours. Children, however....... :roll: Obviously you are a parent! :lol: No - I managed to escape that duty :lol: - but I often have to train families as well as dogs! People who expect me to have thei...

Canine interaction can be very subtle, and it is so easy for us to miss the initial stages. What you saw was the end of an argument, not the beginning. Please don't worry. This is dogs being dogs. She got a telling-off; she and he know why. They should still be fine tpgether, but you continue to sup...